Robert N. Butler, MD: Visionary of Healthy Aging
W. Andrew Achenbaum
eISBN: 9780231535328
2013 (288 pages )
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Front Matter
(pages 1-10)
Contents
(pages 8-10)
Preface: Rober Neil Butler, MD (January 21, 1927-July 4, 2010)
(pages 10-18)
Acknowledgments
(pages 18-22)
1. Life Review
(pages 22-46)
2. The Formative Years
(pages 46-68)
3. A Professional Apprentice
(pages 68-90)
4. Forging Washington Connections
(pages 90-112)
5. Butler at the National Institute on Aging
(pages 112-136)
6. Expanding the Scope of Geriatrics
(pages 136-160)
7. Recasting the New Gerontology Through the International Longevity Center
(pages 160-186)
8. America's Aging Visionary
(pages 186-210)
Epilogue
(pages 210-220)
Appendix: Prologue or Introduction to Life Review, by Robert N. Butler, 2010
(pages 220-240)
References
(pages 240-274)
Index
(pages 274-290)
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Robert N. Butler, MD: Visionary of Healthy Aging
Robert Neil Butler (1927–2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists to engage with older men and women outside of institutional settings, Butler coined the term “ageism” to draw attention to discrimination against older adults and spent a lifetime working to improve their status, medical treatment, and care.
Early in his career, Butler seized on the positive features of late-life development—aspects he documented in his pathbreaking research on “healthy aging” at the National Institutes of Health and in private practice. He set the nation’s age-based health care agenda and research priorities as founding director of the National Institute on Aging and by creating the first interprofessional, interdisciplinary department of geriatrics at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital. In the final two decades of his career, Butler created a global alliance of scientists, educators, practitioners, politicians, journalists, and advocates through the International Longevity Center.
A scholar who knew Butler personally and professionally, W. Andrew Achenbaum follows this pioneer’s significant contributions to the concept of healthy aging and the notion that aging is not synonymous with physical and mental decline. Emphasizing the progressive aspects of Butler’s approach and insight, Achenbaum affirms the ongoing relevance of his work to gerontology, geriatrics, medicine, social work, and related fields.
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Robert N. Butler, MD: Visionary of Healthy Aging
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Achenbaum, W. Andrew
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